The Luckiest Man Ever!

This is so bizarre, this bloke is asked to reenact how he won a car by buying a lottery ticket. The ticket he buys is, er...just watch it.

Stupid or Not Stupid? That is the question.

Couldn't resist this one. "Is U.S. President Bush stupid?" is the question. You may be able to answer that without seeing this video but the fact that this question is being asked at all should tell you something, right?

HOWTO tips hacks and tweaks for hot rods

My first port of call for advice on how to do something clever in cyberspace is not google since social bookmarking has a lot to offer in terms of new cool stuff. However for the hot rodding community, these avenues have not fed me much in the way of cool hot rod information...someone please correct me on this if you can.

Anyway, obviously there is a wealth of information out there about hacking your hot rod. I guess geeks might compare this to case modding your car...not me though.

If you simply need advice on adjusting the valve clearances or ignition timing or how to replace points with an electronic ignition then this advice is but a google-click away. While the information provided is usually very good, there are always the odd case where things are explained, well, wrong! Limit the advice you take to information from trusted sites. Typically these are sites that are either manufacturer-based i.e. commercial and well-known brands, no, really, or web sites that have a rating system attached to the advice they dispense. This advice tends to be more conservative but ultimately safer than Joe User - Engine Expert: Advice Column Site, just my personal experience.

NASA font called Nasal :-)

Ever know a completely useless fact but have no one to tell? The title of this post is all that is. NASA used a font that was highly identifiable but no one knew it was called Nasal surely!

Anyway that wasn't going to be the point of this post, I had time to check out the NASA web site and am constantly amazed at the footage stored there. From the home page you can watch NASA TV or monitor past, current or future misssions.

Fascinating! OK, I hear ya "what a geek", alright, alright...I'll post an article about dirty old V8s with like, old school carburettors, points ignition and no computers and stuff...soon.

Google Saved My Life Tonight Sugar Bear

Ignore the lame play on words naming this item, I want to sing the praises of the much praised google for allowing me to not only blog this blog but also email (that can play MP3s natively by the way) but also provides single-sign-on to web services that allow me to add up stuff as well as write stuff to share my resume, add things to my shared diary, analyse my web site and don't forget watching funniest non-home videos online.

And it's free (up to a point).
And its platform independant (up to a point).
And its language independant (up to a point).

What is the point? This "free" (as in beer) does not sit well with the, now, old school, IT business model. Things are getting very interesting! I love technology when it delivers these sorts of benefits. Of course, older readers will understand the significant failure of Microsoft Passport to catch the internet-single-sign-on wave as people out in user-land simply didn't trust them. Google are considered quite differently in this regard so we can only wait and see if this will turn out differently for google.

Font Smoothie

I'm amazed how many people using Windows XP still have not heard of font smoothing for LCD displays. If you have a discerning eye and are running Windows XP on an LCD monitor, you will want to tune your Cleartype.

While you are there you should also make sure your monitor is calibrated. I noticed a massive improvement with Windoze after I tweaked the color settings on my monitor. Since every manufacturer does this differently, have a look at the setup guide for your screen, you might be pleasantly surprised.

UTF-8 WTF?

This won't mean much unless you are messing around with a web site and wonder why things don't validate against the W3C XHTML standards properly.

This is how I got UTF-8 HTTP headers working with Apache2 on Novell SUSE SLES9. UTF-8 is important. How do I know I have it right?

It's like...totally cosmic

If you are at all interested in the wonders of the universe or have read Bill Bryson and are looking for more detail, check out:

http://cosmicvariance.com/

as these dudes blog about things that have more than 4-dimensions, have never been seen and cannot be measured but are proven to exist!

Mission Control, we have lift-off

Just had five minutes to relaunch my blog and here it is! Too bad there's nothing to see here...yet.